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Wartime love letters returned to U.S. family thanks to Ontario woman's discovery

When Morris and Betty Starkman were newlyweds in 1953, they were about to start their lives together in Detroit, when Morris Starkman, a doctor, was instead sent to Korea to fight in a painful war as a captain with the U.S. Medical Corps. 

Throughout that time, he wrote letters to his new wife and other family members.

Somehow, over the years, those letters, plus letters written back to him, became separated from the family, ending up in a tin box underneath a bunch of

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/portal-to-past-war-time-love-letters-1.6041433?cmp=rss.

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